Animal Hamaguchi Dojo

The Animal Hamaguchi Wrestling Dojo Building

The Animal Hamaguchi Wrestling Dojo (アニマル浜口レスリング道場), or the Animal Hamaguchi Training Gym, is one of the more known wrestling dojo’s in Japan, and is run by Heigo “Animal” Hamaguchi in Asakusa, Taito, Tokyo, Japan. Many stars in Pro Wrestling have come from the dojo from past and present. Animal Hamaguchi is a former pro wrestler himself and spent much time in the USA and competed in both New Japan and All Japan in the 1980’s.
Hamaguchi would open the gym in 1987 as more of a gym for bodybuilders but would also move to a place for young talents to come together for an introductory training gym for those who want to be pro wrestlers.
The gym would have a strong emphasis on utilizing an amateur background as there is no pro wrestling style ring in the building, but many mats for Amateur, Judo, and many other forms of martial arts.
The talents that come to the gym are given the opportunity to learn the fundamentals and art of pro wrestling.